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Evaluating

23 Thursday Apr 2026

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At its most fundamental level evaluation is information collected to base a decision on (Hervey, 2000, p.67). This information can be of statistical and/or intuitive in nature. It is a dual process of monitoring patient progress and making judgments about the course of treatment. This process can be formative (on going) and/or summative (at the end).
Evaluation is used to guide and direct treatment; to ascertain the problems and needs of the client, program, and institution. Evaluations can be used to predict future behavior, to monitor change and to know when to stop treatment (Cruz, Berrol, 2004, p. 26).  Evaluations are often used to establish a baseline of the client, the program and or a particular behavior/movement pattern.
As an autistic person I am constantly evaluating people, places, and things. When I was a child I developed a process of evaluating my siblings footsteps (weight, gait, and speed), breathing (amount, speed), and postural / gestural expressions to determine the likelihood of being punched. it constantly worked quite well.

Assessment and evaluation

24 Tuesday Nov 2020

Posted by RichardB in creative arts therapy, Dance Movement Therapy, Psychology

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In therapy at some point the counselor will engage in an assessment/evaluation  process that generally involves examining how the therapy sessions are going and hopefully includes feed back from the client/patient. If the counselor is trained as a
dance movement therapist the evaluation/assessment may include many areas such
as verbal sharing, drawings and movement. Movement assessment can include
observing ( which can be considered seeing someone move objectively) and
witnessing (which can be considered seeing someone move subjectively) a person
move. I look at:

  • Space, how does the person
    move in the environment, up/down, do they use space or stay small.
  • Time, do they move fast/slow.
  • Force, what is their muscle
    tension like, are they contracting/expanding, hard/soft, light/heavy.
  • Flow, is the movement
    continuous, unrestrained, restricted.
  • Sound, do they talk, use
    vocal sound, create sound with their body.
  • Congruent, how are the
    movements related to the intention.
  • What do I feel while
    witnessing, what and how do I feel like moving when witnessing .
  • How does this compare to
    other people I have observed, the same/different.

I first learned and applied these techniques while studying the movement based
group creative arts modalities know as the Halprin Method and Motional Process
in the 80’s and early 90’s. If you would like more info I recommend 4 books I found useful:

Dance/Movement Therapists in Action: A Working Guide to Research Options

Artistic Inquiry in Dance/Movement Therapy: Creative Research Alternatives

Meaning of Movement

Dance Therapy and Depth Psychology: The Moving Imagination.

These books helped me to strengthen my assessment techniques and to discover new
methods.

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